Donald Trump

===== Election to the presidency =====
{{Main|2016 United States presidential election}}
[[File:ElectoralCollege2016.svg|thumb|upright=1.3|2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227|alt=Electoral college map, depicting Trump winning many states in the South and Midwest and Biden winning many states in the Northeast and Pacific West]]
On November 8, 2016, Trump received 306 pledged [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]] versus 232 for Clinton, though, after elector [[Faithless electors in the United States presidential election, 2016|defections on both sides]], the official count was ultimately 304 to 227.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Kiersten|last1=Schmidt|first2=Wilson|last2=Andrews|title=A Historic Number of Electors Defected, and Most Were Supposed to Vote for Clinton|date=December 19, 2016|access-date=January 31, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/19/us/elections/electoral-college-results.html}}</ref> Trump, the fifth person to be elected president [[United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote|while losing the popular vote]], received nearly 2.9&nbsp;million fewer votes than Clinton.<ref>{{cite web|last=Desilver|first=Drew|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/20/why-electoral-college-landslides-are-easier-to-win-than-popular-vote-ones/|title=Trump's victory another example of how Electoral College wins are bigger than popular vote ones|website=[[Pew Research Center]]|date=December 20, 2016|access-date=October 2, 2021}}</ref> He also was the only president who [[List of presidents of the United States by previous experience|neither served in the military nor held any government office]] prior to becoming president.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/11/13587532/donald-trump-no-experience|title=Donald Trump will be the only US president ever with no political or military experience|last=Crockett|first=Zachary|date=November 11, 2016|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|access-date=January 3, 2017}}</ref>
Trump's victory was a [[political upset]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/election-results-2016-clinton-trump-231070|title=Trump pulls off biggest upset in U.S. history|work=[[Politico]]|date=November 9, 2016|first1=Shane|last1=Goldmacher|first2=Ben|last2=Schreckinger|access-date=November 9, 2016}}</ref> Polls had consistently shown Clinton with a [[Nationwide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election|nationwide]]&mdash;though diminishing&mdash;lead, as well as an advantage in most of the [[Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 United States presidential election|competitive states]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/upshot/why-trump-won-working-class-whites.html|title=Why Trump Won: Working-Class Whites|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 9, 2016|first=Nate|last=Cohn|access-date=November 9, 2016}}</ref>

Trump won 30 states, including [[Michigan]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Wisconsin]], states which had been considered a [[Blue wall (U.S. politics)|blue wall]] of Democratic strongholds since the 1990s. Clinton won 20 states and the [[District of Columbia]]. Trump's victory marked the return of an [[Divided government in the United States|undivided]] Republican government&mdash;a Republican White House combined with Republican control of both chambers of [[United States Congress|Congress]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 9, 2016|access-date=October 2, 2021|first=Amber|last=Phillips|title=Republicans are poised to grasp the holy grail of governance|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/09/republicans-are-about-to-reach-the-holy-grail-of-governance/}}</ref>

[[File:Women's March on Washington (32593123745).jpg|thumb|[[2017 Women's March|Women's March]] in Washington on January 21, 2017|alt=Pennsylvania Ave., completely packed with protesters, mostly women, many wearing pink and holding signs with progressive feminist slogans]]
Trump's election victory sparked [[Protests against Donald Trump#After the election|protests]] in major U.S. cities.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Logan|first1=Brian|last2=Sanchez|first2=Chris|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-donald-trump-protest-united-states-2016-11|title=Protests against Donald Trump break out nationwide|date=November 10, 2016|work=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tweets-that-protesters-have-passion-for-our-great-country-2016-11|title=Trump says protesters have 'passion for our great country' after calling demonstrations 'very unfair'|last=Colson|first=Thomas|date=November 11, 2016|work=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref> On the day after Trump's inauguration, an estimated 2.6&nbsp;million people worldwide, including an estimated half million in Washington, D.C., protested against Trump in the [[2017 Women's March|Women's Marches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/21/womens-march-aims-start-movement-trump-inauguration/96864158/|title=At 2.6 million strong, Women's Marches crush expectations|last1=Przybyla|first1=Heidi M.|last2=Schouten|first2=Fredreka|date=January 21, 2017|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=January 22, 2017}}</ref>